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China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-space-nobody-can-hear-the-competition dept.

hackingbear writes "Unsatisfied by the reliance on American GPS navigation systems and not feeling much security joining the European Galileo system, China will expand its 4-satellite Beidou navigation system to a full-fledged, competitive, and encrypted system by 2010."

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  3. Re:I wonder what else China will do... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First, they start tracking the children...
    http://epic.org/privacy/rfid/children.html

    Then everybody else:
    Human implantation

    The Food and Drug Administration in the US has approved the use of RFID chips in humans.[69] Some business establishments have also started to chip customers, such as the Baja Beach nightclub in Barcelona. This has provoked concerns into privacy of individuals as they can potentially be tracked wherever they go by an identifier unique to them. There are concerns this could lead to abuse by an authoritarian government or lead to removal of other freedoms.[70]

    On July 22, 2006, Reuters reported that two hackers, Newitz and Westhues, at a conference in New York City showed that they could clone the RFID signal from a human implanted RFID chip, showing that the chip is not hack-proof as was previously believed.[71] Some conspiracy theories surrounding the chip point out the dangers it could pose to the freedom and liberty of people if it were to be common place in the future. Furthermore, it might lead society into a "1984 state aparatus system" that could potentially mean the end to free speech. Opinions such as this are pointed out in the 2006 award winning documentary Zeitgeist, which suggest that the RFID chip being implanted in every person in the future could very well happen through a campaign of fear implemented by a totalitarian regime.

    Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, authors of Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID, wrote a new book on the subject.[72]

    Shamelessly copied from Wikipedia, by the way...:-)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID#Human_implantation

    Enjoy what (little) freedom you have left, while it lasts...